Appeal to Our Blog Readers

by Dollars and Sense

Dear Regular Visitors to the D&S blog:

If you read postings to the D&S blog via an RSS feed rather than by visiting the D&S website, you may not know that we are having a 35th anniversary fundraising effort. We are calling it our "Anti-Capital Campaign," both because we want to put D&S on a better financial footing by retiring some debt, and because we want to secure our financial future so we can keep standing up to capital for another 35 years!

Our goal for the year was to raise $35,000 beyond what we normally raise. Online fundraising has been a key component of this campaign. At the beginning of December we launched the online component, complete with fundraising "thermometer" and a special web page announcing our campaign.

We are within striking distance of meeting our $35K goal by the end of 2009. We have raised about $8K in December so far, but we need around $6.5K more by the end of the month.

If you are a regular visitor to the D&S blog and website—if you depend on us to keep you informed about the U.S. and global economies, if you like the analyses and explanations our authors provide, if you enjoy the tips our "sources" provide us and we pass on via the blog, please consider supporting us financially. We are a collectively run organization—our staff isn't paid much, and we run a very lean operation, so you can be sure that any donation you provide will go directly to disseminating the kind of left economic analysis that D&S has been providing for 35 years.

Find out more about our 35th anniversary here (for our "Anti-Capital Campaign") and here (for our retrospective).

To donate, click here. There are several hundred blog subscribers, so if each subscriber makes a small donation we can reach our campaign goals. Please mention in the comments section of your online order that you are a fan of the blog and are responding to this special appeal.

You may also want to consider subscribing to the print edition of D&S; or purchasing an e-subscription (we'll send you a full-color pdf of the magazine a week or two before the print subscribers get theirs!); subscriptions at the sustainer rate ($60/year; $120 for two years) actually cover the costs of producing the magazine. Or you may wish to purchase gift subscriptions for friends or family (we're having a special right now—only $10 each if you buy five or more!). Finally, our newest book, The Economic Crisis Reader, makes a terrific gift.

Thanks for your support!

—Chris Sturr, co-editor of D&S, for the staff and collective.

Labels: 35th anniversary, anit-capital, capital, DandS blog, fundraising

 

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12/23/2009 11:15:00 AM